Friday, March 28, 2014

The Extensible Storage Engine (ESE/ESENT), also known as JET Blue, is an Indexed Sequential Access Method (ISAM)data storage technology. Its purpose is to allow applications to store and retrieve data via indexed and sequential access.

ESE provides transacted data update and retrieval. A crash recovery mechanism is provided so that data consistency is maintained even in the event of a system crash. Transactions in ESE are highly concurrent making ESE suitable for server and client applications. ESE caches data intelligently to ensure high performance access to data. In addition, ESE is lightweight making it suitable for auxiliary applications.

The ESE Runtime (ESENT.DLL) has shipped in every Windows release since Windows NT 3.5, with native x64 version of the ESE runtime shipping with x64 versions as well (including IA64), and ARM. ESE is available on Windows, all flavors (server and client) and SKUs....

ESENT is an embeddable, transactional database engine that allows you to create custom applications that need reliable, high-performance, low-overhead storage of data. The ESENT engine can help with data needs that range from something as simple as a hash table that is too large to store in memory, to something more complex, such as an application with tables, columns, and indexes. To create an application with ESENT, you use the esent.dll DLL that is part of the Windows operating system and write your code with C/C++. For more information about ESENT, see Extensible Storage Engine Reference.

ManagedESENT is built on top of esent.dll, which is part of Windows, so there are no extra unmanaged binaries to download and install. With the ManagedESENT library, you can create your application by using a managed language such as C# instead of C/C++. ...